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Four-star General in the US Air Force

Elder Bruce A. Carlson retired as a general from the United States Air Force on November 21, 2008. As part of his retirement, he also relinquished command of Air Force Material Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. He served in the US Air Force for 37 years.

Five months after his retirement, on April 4, 2009, he was sustained a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.